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The country’s most senior judge is to be compelled by law to encourage more
women and ethnic minority candidates to become judges.

Ministers have switched their stance to put the Lord Chief Justice under a
statutory duty to promote diversity.

Women and minorities are still not well represented on the bench, particularly
at senior levels. Only one judge in 20 is non-white and fewer than one in
four is female, a disparity that a Lords’ committee report this year found
risked undermining public confidence in the courts.

There is a duty to promote judiciary diversity under section 64 of the

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